Hi, I have 6 seeds I can send you...just sowed my other 6. I'd be happy to mail these to you, or perhaps we can put together a larger trade. Do you have a list? Thanks, Elizabeth Victorian_Bellefonte

Trudi, Cecilia lives close to the location and posted some suggestions which I have quoted here: **************************** The closest hotel to the park is a Quality Inn a mile or two from the park, just off the I-95 exit. It used to be a Holiday Inn Express, but changed hands and was renovated a few years ago. It has an Italian restaurant adjacent to it, which just opened (I haven't even tried it yet!) . The reviews I've read about the hotel on the internet are mixed - some folks say it's a dump, others have praised it. Its address is 1401 Bloomfield Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21227. There are several nice hotels in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, which is about 5 miles from the park site - I don't know what your budget is, though, and some of them are rather expensive. If you stayed downtown, however, you could enjoy some of the nearby tourist sites - Harborplace, the National Aquarium, etc. Another option would be to stay at one of the hotels near BWI Airport. The park is only a 10 minute drive or so from there (I even know a back way that avoids major highways). ************************ Balmer is a nice town and a day in the interharbor full of nice stuff. I was just at the aquarium with the kids last weekend; you can buy tickets online. There are many nice resturants we ate at McCormick and Shmidt. Also, if you like baseball Camden yards is also walking distance and tickets are cheap. Greg

I have sungella- didn't know it was also called sungold. It did not have the sweetness sungold has, imo. Yeah if can send some of the Bonito Ojo and mexico that would be great--- is mexico the same one that tomato growers sells? I grew that one and it is a large pink tom, very good flavor and i still have seed for that one, but i always like to try different sources. I have many varieties of seed, if you let me know what you like i can let you know what i have.

Sungold F1 plants don't have any special requirements for growth beyond what you'd use for any other tomato. I can't really tell how big your seedlings are now, but at the 1-2 true leaf stage it's best to take them out of the seed starting mix and transfer them to a small pot/other container or many of us transfer our seedlings to individual plastic cells that are part of an insert that goes into a standard nursery size tray. If you have just a few seedlings it might be best to just transfer them to a Dixie cup, 8-12 oz, with holes punched in the bottom for drainage and let them grow in those, individually until putting them outside in your new raised bed which I assume you're going to fill with some good growing material for tomatoes and other things you might be growing. When you transfer the seedlings from the starting mix be sure you plant them deeply in the Dixie cup, or whatever, so that the stems are buried and there's just a tuft of foliage left at the top. If I've missed something please just ask me again here in this thread. About cutworms. To date, and that's about 2500 different varieties grown, I haven't found any one variety that's especially susceptible to cutworms. Lanky, spindly plants are always preferred by them but if the stems are strong they can't gnaw them down b'c a cutworm has to encircle the stem before gnawing and it can't do it if the stem is nice and thick and strong. So to prevent cutowrm damage it's best to make a physical barrier and that means placing a twig and plastic soda straw or some use nails, right next to the stem to prevent the worm from being able to encircle the stem. Using collars of any kind doen't prevent the worms from coming up from the soil inside the collar in my experience. Carolyn, who is just a bit concerned about getting those seedlings to the 6-9 inch size to transplant outside rather late, I would think for your area. Most others I know already have their plants outside in your gardening zone area. But if others in your area are at the same stage you are, well, just go with the flow. ( smile)